IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine - Q1 2021 - 85

Ricardo Reis, Senior Member, IEEE, and
Fernanda Kastensmidt, Member, IEEE

SERESSA 2020-16th International School on the Effects of
Radiation on Embedded Systems for Space Applications
Abstract
The 16th International School on the Effects of Radiation on
Embedded Systems for Space Applications, SERESSA 2020,
celebrating 15 years of the Seasonal School, was organized as
a full virtual event from Porto Alegre, Brazil. This edition had
27 invited speakers and 15 posters. It had 175 participants from
32 countries. This year SERESSA has the technical support of
CASS and CEDA.

I. Introduction
ERESSA combines academic, government, and
industrial communities working in the area of radiation effects on embedded systems. Radiation
effects are a significant concern for space and avionics
systems, as well as for critical applications operating at
ground level such as automotive, high energy facilities,
medical or even banking. The school is based on lectures
and exercises involving real case studies using the common tools of the domain. The intended audience includes
both beginning and experienced researchers, engineers,
and post-graduate students wishing to enhance their
knowledge base in this rapidly evolving field. Topics covered by SERESSA include: radiation environment, spacecraft anomalies, single-event effects (SEE), total dose effects (TID), radiation effects in power systems, radiation
effects in solar cells, architecture hardening in analog, and
digital circuits and in memories, software hardening, effects in FPGAs, hardness assurance, rate prediction, radiation testing, laser testing and remote testing experiments.
First SERESSA was organized in 20005, from November 20 to 25, in the middle of the Amazon Jungle,
Manaus, Brazil. The location was the Ariau Hotel, a hotel in the level of top of trees (Fig. 1). The location was
perfect to improve the networking between participants
as everybody was together during the event, even during the nice and interesting set of social events. Then,
it moved around the world, being organized in Seville
(Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Palm Beach (USA),
Takasaki (Japan), São José dos Campos (Brazil), Toulouse (France), Ansan (South Korea), Moscow (Russia),
Bariloche (Argentina), Puebla (Mexico), Montrea (Canada), Munich (Germany), Nordwick (The Netherlands)
and Seville (Spain).

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCAS.2020.3047330
Date of current version: 11 February 2021

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Figure 1. Ariau Towers, location of the first edition of SERESSA in 2005.

II. SERESSA 2020
In 2020, it was the celebration of 15 years of SERESSA,
and it was organized as full Virtual Edition, from Porto
Alegre, Brazil. Fig 2 shows the main flyer of the event.
This edition had 27 invited speakers and 15 posters. The
175 participants were from 32 countries. This year SERESSA has the technical support of CASS and CEDA.
The organizers of the 2020 edition were:
General Chairs: Ricardo Reis, UFRGS, Brazil and
Raoul Velazco, TIMA, France
Program Chairs: Fernanda Kastensmidt, UFRGS, Brazil and Pedro Martín-Holgado, CNA, Spain
Local Chairs: Raphael Brum, UFRGS, Brazil and Tiago
Balen, UFRGS, Brazil
Finance Chairs: Jose Rodrigo Azambuja, UFRGS, Brazil and Paulo Butzen, UFRGS, Brazil
Industry Liaisons: Joao Baptista, UFSM, Brazil and
Marcelo Lubaszewski, UFRGS, Brazil

Figure 2. Flyer of SERESSA 2020.

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